Books for Company: Guest Post : Adriana Ryan + Giveaway

14.12.12

Guest Post : Adriana Ryan + Giveaway

Please welcome Adriana to Books for Company.

Adriana is the author of the newly released World of Shell and Bone.

World of Shell and Bone

By Adriana Ryan

In a world ravaged by a nuclear holocaust, Vika Cannon knows there are no guarantees: no guarantees of safety, no guarantees that your neighbor is not actually a spy for the government, and no guarantees you’ll be allowed to emigrate to a new life in Asia.

New Amana is dying. Food and water are scarce, and people suffering from radiation-caused mutations—the Nukeheads—are the new class of homeless.

Vika has just one purpose: to produce healthy progeny using a Husband assigned by the Match Clinic. Unhealthy children are carted away to Asylums to be experimented on, just as Vika’s little sister Ceres was, eight years ago. Parents incapable of producing healthy progeny are put to death in gas chambers.

When she’s assigned a Husband shortly after her twentieth birthday, Vika expects him to be complacent and obedient. But Shale Underwood has a secret. He is a member of the Radicals, the terrorist group intent on overthrowing the government. And Shale has information about Ceres.

As she learns more about the Rads’s plan, Vika finds herself drawn to Shale in ways she’d never imagined. When freedom calls in the way of a healthy pregnancy, will she betray her government and risk death for Shale and Ceres?

What part of writing do you love most? (Beginning, middle or end?)

This is an interesting question. Writers generally, as a species, hate writing the middles of their books. To us it’s a huge pain because we want to get to the good parts of the story, and while the middle is fun to read, it’s not as fun to write because it’s not generally where the highest energy points of the story are.
That being said, I love writing the big reveal of my story. In every story I’ve written so far, there’s been a moment where the heroine learns something that she didn’t know before about someone or something dear to her. This basically changes the world as she knows it. I love, love, love writing that moment. My fingers can’t fly across the keyboard fast enough when I get to those points. It’s amazing, and I’m usually covered in goose bumps from the sheer adrenaline rush of it. :) This usually happens toward the beginning of the book, so I guess my favorite part is usually at about the quarter mark of the book.

About Adriana

Adriana lives and writes in beautiful Charleston, SC. A huge fan of spooky stuff and shoes, she enjoys alternately hitting up the historic graveyards and outlet malls. World of Shell and Bone is her first book.

Find Adriana

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